Cynthia McKinney. Now she's hinting at sinister stolen elections and muttering about Republicans defeating her.
Is there a single leftist/Democrat in the entire world that can accept a defeat anymore? This is getting freaking ridiculous.
Over the past few years, increasing numbers of affluent blacks have moved into southern DeKalb County, the base of Ms. McKinney’s district, and many were not impressed by her confrontational and occasionally erratic style.
Alan I. Abramowitz, a professor of political science at Emory University here, agreed that demographic shifts in Ms. McKinney’s district had favored her more moderate challenger, Henry C. Johnson, a trial lawyer and a former DeKalb County commissioner, who won the primary.
“Her base has really kind of eroded,” Mr. Abramowitz said. “One thing that has really happened in this district is a large influx of middle-class black voters into south DeKalb, and if you look at the voting patterns in those areas, they are not McKinney supporters.”
But Ms. McKinney and her supporters contend that Republicans mounted a campaign to vote her out of office, as they did four years ago when crossover voting helped elect her Democratic challenger, Denise Majette.
“We aren’t going to tolerate any more stolen elections,” Ms. McKinney said in her concession speech, though crossover voting is legal in Georgia.
“This is just like 2002,” said Nina Winfrey, 62, a resident of Rockdale County and a “die-hard Cynthia fan” who has been volunteering for Ms. McKinney’s campaign for 15 years. “We don’t need anybody down here telling us what to do who don’t live in south DeKalb County.”
Several Republican strategists acknowledged that widespread crossover voting was organized and encouraged on Tuesday.
Got that? Crossover voting is legal, but it's still stealing the election. One wonders how their heads don't burst into flames trying to follow their own twisted "logic". Folks, this runoff vote was not even remotely close. We are not talking a razor thin victory. McKinney got stomped. Compare that with the graceful concession of Joe Lieberman in Connecticut even though he could have legally challenged the results because of extreme irregularities in the absentee ballots. (Election officials did not send ballots to military personnel in time for them to be returned before election day.)
